Tonita Pena (Quah Ah), Pueblo Painter: Asserting Identity through Continuity and Change
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Marilee Jantzer-White
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 3, Summer, 1994, pp. 369-382
Description
Examines social & political events and contexts and the media coverage that surrounded the work and career of painter Tonita Peña; considers the production and reception of their work and asks to what extent Peña’s work responded to their audience.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 2, 1994, pp. 1-41
Description
Explores how a number of nineteenth-century paintings perpetuated and/or challenged the culturally dominant ideas of "Orientalism" and "domestic ideology".
File contains a negative from a ceremony held in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan by the Urban Indian Association to honour graduates on May 2, 1970. Image shows men receiving diplomas on stage.
Discusses a controversial lesson in history through art, by presenting nstitutions devoted to nostalgic theme-park versions of history; the exhibit contrasts violence, defiance, racism, alienation and suicide with family harmony, friendship, creativity and work.